Bonding Ethernet Cards in Linux

Providing more than one ethernet card to the network for communication over the server helps in introducing hardware redundancy thereby providing additional layer for protection from downtime of the server.

In this tutorial we shall be learning how to bond two ethernet cards to provide redundancy to the server running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Edition

Step 1: Disable AppArmor – Ubuntu comes preloaded with AppArmor which can cause issues with bonding therefore it is should be disabled.